Varying strategies for processing “loose” argument structure in West Germanic languages
Permissive subjects are non-agentive subjects combined with action verbs in the active form (e. g., “A few years ago a penny would buy you two or three pins”; “The tentsleeps four people”), hardly found in German compared to English. For this contrast, previous research offers an explanation related...
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2025-05-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Language Sciences |
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| Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/flang.2025.1529973/full |
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